Erica wendlandiana Klotzsch

Erect shrub, 0.6-1.5 m high. Leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, linear, shortly pilose, 4.2-6.3 mm long. Flowers 1 or 2(3)-nate, at ends of leafy, lateral branchlets or aggregated into loose, spike-like synflorescences, erect; pedicel 4.2 mm long; bracts, linear, finely hairy. Calyx sepals leaf-like, lanceolate-linear, shortly pilose, 3.2 mm long. Corolla clavate, puberulous, subcostate, subdilated at apex, brick-red sometimes pale orange, 16.8-18.9 mm long; lobes short, recurved, concolorous. Filaments pilose; anthers far exserted, aristate; appendages straight. Ovary 4-locular, long and narrow, not emarginate, with very distinctive large bulge at base of style, glabrous, capitate, capitulum pilose; style pilose, base sometimes wider than ovary, exserted. Flowering time Aug.-Jan.